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It's January, so it's time for our annual "suggestion drive" when we open a topic and request your suggestions for how TC (the forum, the web site, the MUX, forum rules, etc.) could be improved. We make no promises to implement suggestions, but the Hosts and staff do look at and consider them all. (And have implemented a number of suggestions over the last eleven years).

Four items are completely off the table, however:

1) Changing forum software. (SMF has a low server load as well as some features the Hosts can't live without.)

2) Eliminating/weakening our quoting rules. (The Hosts will shut down the board first -- seriously, having quoting with the backlinks to the quoted message is that important.)

3) Eliminating the all the limitations on accounts that have not qualified for Full Membership.

4) Turning the board away from its "Discussion and Debate" orientation.

Suggestions regarding other areas will be considered. Suggestions that take a lot of staff time or that cost money will be considered, but will will be far less likely to be implemented (for obvious reasons).

Staff may not reply to suggestions, but they ARE read. (And I read every one of them.)

2) Eliminating/weakening our quoting rules. (The Hosts will shut down the board first -- seriously, having quoting with the backlinks to the quoted message is that important.)

I feel that changing the quoting rules would result in a lot of confusion.

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"I've seen knights in armor panic at the first hint of battle. And I've seen the lowliest unarmed squire pull a spear from his own body to defend a dying horse." - Kevin Costner as Robin of Loxley, Robin Hood; Prince of Thieves.

There's no cancel button, but if you just navigate away from the post-composing screen, your post will automatically be cancelled. (That is, hit the Back button on your browser or click a link to go elsewhere.)

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"The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced." -- Aart Van Der Leeuw

I think it would be cool to see what posts of yours have been ignored... not the person just the post

I don't think individual posts can be put on ignore, so that would be pretty difficult. I may be wrong about this, but I'm pretty sure you can only ignore a board (i.e. folder) or a poster, not an individual post or thread.

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"The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced." -- Aart Van Der Leeuw

I don't think individual posts can be put on ignore, so that would be pretty difficult. I may be wrong about this, but I'm pretty sure you can only ignore a board (i.e. folder) or a poster, not an individual post or thread.

Oh yes, that works perfectly. Especially when finishing a longer post and hitting that **** back-button by accident!

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